List Your Health Problems & Disablements

I am myopic. My vision is 20/-475 in both eyes. That means if I were ever to lose my glasses or find myself somewhere without access to contacts and/or an eye doctor- I'd be in real trouble.
Luckily, my vision can be corrected to 20/20 fairly easily.

I have no other medical issues or 'disablements'. I take no medicine for any condition.

I was born cross-eyed, an eye operation and glasses fixed it, but to this day one eye is still stronger then the other.

When I was 19, I got a mysterious digestive affliction the net effect of which is that I can only eat the blandest of foods. If I eat a more regular diet, I risk serious malabsorption. To this day, despite every test known to man, the doctors find nothing definitively wrong.

I tend to have wacky sleep habits (from years of playing music I think), sometimes sleeping for 10 hours, sometimes sleeping for 5 hours but never being very sharp in the morning.

I tend to sometimes have a bit of a nihilistic-existential-saddening view of life and repeat positive mantras to accomplish my goals.

I'm chronically cranky.

And that's one of your nicer qualities!

I have an itchy scalp sometimes.

Hammer toes
Fallen metatarsal arch
A bunion the size of Portugal

. . . and that's just my right foot

I'm pretty bad at seeing, hearing, and smelling. Pretty good at touching, and, surprisingly because of the diminished sense of smell, tasting.

I only have one kidney, though I function as normal as anyone else ...as long as I keep the one I have healthy.

The tip of my index finger on my left hand is not attached to the tendon. I can make a complete fist with that hand, but from the knuckle up on the finger, it stays perfectly straight. To look at my hand it looks normal, though. Was due to me cutting that finger down to the bone when I was cleaning a long serrated bread knife. A couple hours of surgery and 3 months of therapy on the hand got me goin' again. The reason the tip is no longer attached, is that I must have done something I shouldn't have done after the surgery to cause a partial undoing of the sewn tendon. No biggie........unless I try to open a bag by pulling it apart. No can do. I have to cut em' with a pair of scissors.

Other than that..... is perfectly healthy!

I cut a tendon on my left hand index finger while cutting a pork roast..
but not as thoroughly as your index finger tendon, Brooke. But we can be index finger sisters anyway.

Sure can, sista Osso!

Ok, gurl, finger non-wiggles...

I won't give the whole list. Last week, I was replacing bad wood on the back of the house, while standing on a six foot high ladder. I pulled away a piece of siding, stirring up a nest of yellowjackets. I had to turn quickly so I could jump to the ground, which I successfully acomplished. Turns out, the yellowjackets were not the aggressive kind. They did not give chase. But, turning that rapidly caused me to wrench a shoulder. It is not really painful, unless I try to raise it up a certain way. It is slowly getting better. I was able to drive to Dallas Friday, with no problems. I will only go to a doctor if it does not get well on its own.

interesting thread idea!

Difficulty with some hearing situations.

Like picking out one voice when several people are talking. I'm hopeless in a crowd. I'm best one on one.
At the same time, people with loud voices make me wince.
Most music bothers me. Even music I like I only enjoy for a song or 2, and can only tolerate a short while longer before needing quiet.

oh...and I'm lactose intolerant. Cow milk is for baby cows, not people.

I had alcoholic violent parents and was locked out of my own home at 15 to fend for myself; it took me untill I was 29 to feel whole and complete. Even today I can still sometimes feel the burden of mental scarring.

oh ****, I forgot....I'm an alcoholic.

Hand to you, Chum, not that you asked for it. I don't always agree with you, but so what?

Well, hell, the very same thing happened at the very same age to my (elder) sister. She committed suicide at 36.

Me, I'm 47, and still alive. A freakin' miracle, if you ask me (given I had, obviously, the very same parents!)

Still, it took me 10 long years of (expensive, tedious) therapy to get here, to a happy place.

I'm a bit sensitive about anyone disturbing that happy place, but I've no health problems to speak of, other than the ones I was born with, which are no trouble at all.

And here I thought my 20/-220 was bad! NO problem... groping for glasses...

Hey, have you tried the trick where you need to kill a cockroach in the house, and all you hafta do is whip your glasses off? I do this. I can easily kill a vague brown blob. If it moves about, I can even track it without glasses.

Harder to kill a thing with all its details clearly visible... waving antennae, spiky legs, wanting to stay alive, all of that. Glasses can, in fact, be handy at times.

(P.S. - I live in Florida, where cockroaches are not only Huge, they can Fly.)